Lets face it; no one wants to be moping around in a dark gloomy room all alone so lonely and depressed. Man is in constant search of a companion, be it a pet or better yet a partner in life. Whatever your sexual orientation is, we need human companionship.

We have all seen it before, someone walks up to someone gets rejected and the pain reflects on their faces. Not everyone though even has the courage to walk up on someone to introduce themselves. How often has someone felt his knees shaking so hard with just the thought of being rejected.

Another scenario is a person who never seems to find the person that would perfectly suit his or her own personality. Some have hade countless relationships breakdown yet they try and try over again. This is because no matter how hard being in a relationship is, people need someone to hold on to, someone to share their lives with, that's why no matter how much we fall, we get up, dust ourselves off and try all over again

Thanks to the onset and advance in socializing brought upon by the Internet, crossing cultural borders and shortening regional distance, finding someone for a short- or long-term relationship is not a problem anymore. Plus, you don't have to totally expose, yourself limiting the pain of rejection.

Having to talk someone under the blanket of anonymity is a protection or shield from pain and rejection that is provided by an online dating service website. You have the opportunity to simultaneously meet a lot of persons and having the pick of the lot.

Some online dating service websites even provide their own matching system in order to help sort out from the thousands of members. What they do is get your profile and automatically match them with other profiles and pinpoints the most probable matches depending on your preference and theirs as well.

The online dating service will suggest those probable matches to you and its up toy you to make a move, you could either send them a message through their email account from the site or post a message on their bulletin board.

These are services that could really help a lot in search of a friend or a partner depending on your choice. Either way, you get a lot of fun doing the procedure.

Now imagine that all these features and all these services are for free.

Sounds too good to be true? But it is, a free online dating service is a reality.

The word "Free" has become holistic nowadays. No one believes in freebies anymore. But be it far from being an urban legend, the mantra "the best things in life are free" is still adaptable and is still true albeit a rarity.

So ok, no one blames anyone for being a bit skeptic about anything totally being free. But some free online dating service websites do offer their services for free because they earn their revenues through advertising and marketing.

Meaning? Some companies pay them to have their ads posted in their site because of the big traffic flow in their site. The more people go to a certain site, the more people should be able to see their ads. Product awareness equals to curiosity, curiosity breeds potential sales.

That is the reason why memberships are being offered free, to attract more members in their dating sites. The more members there are the more viable the site is to ask for higher ad rates.

Plus, word of mouth is one of the more popular methods of advertising. The more people recommend the site, the more people would apply as members. Thus equaling to more traffic.

Thus is the competition set in the Internet. With millions of sites competing for traffic in their sites, many sites are doing everything they can to attract more people.

While "free" still do exist, it won't do any harm to be cautious. Read the terms and agreements first before signing up for anything. Be wary in providing any personal information, especially your social security number and your credit card numbers.

If everything looks alright, then off you go, enter the world of free online dating service and be among the happy success stories that have lead to finding a person that you can share your life with, or maybe get a few dates.